Disclaimer: This is not mine, but J.K Rowling's.

Chapter 6

The Marauder's except Peter, of course, we're sitting out side by the lake during a free period discussing random ideas, and theories that they had lurking in their minds. In the distance Lily, Emma, Ellie, and Kat were walking towards the grounds too.

"You know what we haven't done for ages?" Sirius asked James and Remus.

"Oh, I think I know what you're talking about." A sneaky Remus whispered.

"What, I don't understand what you're talking about, and would you stop speaking in hushed tones. It's beginning to drive me up the wall." James impatiently added.

"It's a prank you stupid git!" Sirius exclaimed, now breaking the volume of a hushed tone.

"Oh, yeah, your right Remus, we haven't done one in a while, I wonder why? It's not as if we've been working harder or anything." James said now using a hushed tone.

"I have such a good idea!" An excited Sirius boasted, but Remus was now becoming uneasy about the idea, because Sirius only got his idea when he saw Emma, Kat, Ellie, and Lily walk by. He had a bad feeling about this.

"Oh gosh, Sirius has a really weird look on his face; I think they are planning something." Emma said questioning the look on her boyfriends face.

"Em, I don't think that you need to worry about it, especially when I have some seriously exciting news!" Said an ecstatic Katherine.

"They put up the next Hogsmeade trip! And it's this Saturday."

"So what?" A confused Ellie asked

"So what? Are you forgetting what someone by the name of Sam asked me?" Katherine asked, now starting to feel slightly angry, and upset.

"Oh right, sorry, I forgot." Emma and Ellie said in unison.

"But speaking of the devil." Lily said pointing to the dashing young man who was now walking towards them.

"Sam!" Katherine yelled, wrapping her arms around his muscular body. "I'm so happy to see you." She said with a huge, glowing smile on her face.

"I'm happy to see you soon, hey I know we said that we were going to go to Hogsmeade on Saturday, but I can't wait till then, why don't you and your friends come and watch our quidditch practice?" Sam suggested. He was the Ravenclaw captain and he played chaser.

This is what gave him his good body. He had dark brown hair that flopped wildly onto his face, and entrancing blue eyes, how could she resist.

"You don't mind that im on the Gryffindor team?"

He shook his head, "I want you to come."

"Ok, we'd love to! I'll see you tonight. Goodbye." She said giving him a quick peck on the lips. She walked off to join her friends who were now sitting with their boyfriends, by the lake.

"So how did it go?" Sniggered James.

"Fine thank you, he invited me to come and watch his quidditch practice tonight. "She paused, applied some lip-gloss and continued. "Oh, and I almost forgot, he said that you girls could come along to, that is if you want to."

"Oh sorry Kat, Sirius and I were planning to spend some time together, alone, tonight, maybe next time," Emma said. She didn't want to go, and luckily she that excuse to fall back on.

"Ellie, are you going to come?"

"Yeah, sure. Love quidditch. You guys know that!" Ellie said she was the seeker on the Gryffindor team.

"Yeah, we know that very well. What about you Lily, do you want to come?"

"Oh I might, it really depends how much homework we get from Slughorn." Lily said, but unlike Emma, she quite enjoyed watching quidditch practice.

"Lily, but you've never come and watched me practice, but now you're quite happy to." He stopped, it looked like he was choking on something, Lily turned to Sirius, and it seemed that both him and James were turning a bright purple.

Suddenly they both fell into the lake, and began to sink.

"James!" Screamed a horrified Lily, who was now ripping off her layers so that she could jump in and save him.

"Sirius!" Emma yelled, and started to do exactly the same as Lily.

Emma and Lily jumped into the Lake, but as they did they saw Sirius and James standing by the side of the lake laughing themselves silly, it had all been a prank.

"Potter! You insensitive, immature, rat bag of a prick, I HATE YOU! You don't do things like that to people you love, oh but then I guess you don't love me. I bet that all you really wanted for was as another one of your stupid bimbos. I guess I was stupid. Stupid for falling for someone like you!" And with that she stormed off and up to the dormitory, but not before say, "Kat, I'll come tonight, and I'll find myself a new boyfriend."

Everyone was sitting there in shock, well everyone except Emma, who was still in the lake.

"Sirius, if you ever plan on being forgiven I suggest that you get me out of here right NOW!" Screamed Emma, who was now shivering from the cold.

"Ok, sorry, but please don't shout." Sirius said cowering down. He went to give her his hand, but only fell into the lake, with no Emma in sight; he looked up and saw her standing on the side of the lake, dripping.

"You're not the only one who can pull a prank. But I swear, if you ever pull a practical joke on me like that ever again, then you better say good bye to you ass now, cause it want be there anymore." Emma said, she sounded like she was joking but they all knew that she was dead serious.

"James, mate are you ok?" Remus asked, as they were walking into their potions class.

"I'm fine ok, just leave it. You heard her, she hates me." James whispered. He was trying to avoid being yelled at by Professor Slughorn; he didn't need it, especially after the way Lily had gone off at him.

"James, she's said that plenty of times before, but you've always just bounced back." Remus said trying to comfort him.

"Yeah, I know, but this time was different, the look in her eyes, she looked at me as if I had truly failed her. She had opened her heart to me, only for me to do something stupid and screw it up again. She's not the stupid one, I am." James said, but then continued. "Remus, it's no use you trying to comfort me, you heard what she said, Potter, it sounded so cold." And with that Remus just dropped it and began to pay attention, but he was still worried about James.

That night, the girls, except Emma were all getting ready to go and watch the Practice.

"Oh I'm in luuurve!" Katherine announced, falling to the bed, with her hand on her forehead.

"I'm in love with his eyes, his hair, his shoulders, his abs, oh his abs!" Kat added dreamily.

"What about his personality?" Ellie asked.

"Oh and that too of course." Kat quickly added.

The girls all cracked up. It had been a while since they had all laughed like this.

"Hey, watch it, I was born like this!" Kat argued.

"What, born shallow?" Joked Lily. Ellie joined in laughing for a while to.

"Hey do you reckon that it's cold outside?" Lily asked.

"Wow, you really must be out of it today!" Ellie exclaimed.

"Yeah, it's snowing outside, and you ask if it's going to be cold." Kat said sarcastically.

They all began to laugh again; they were having so much fun.

"Look, I think that we should really get going, otherwise it will be finished by the time we get there." Kat suggested, looking at her watch.

"Ok."

Ten minutes later the girls found them sitting together in a heap watching the Ravenclaw's train.

"Hey, I think we could use that move, or wow, that one was good too." Ellie announced in awe.

"Stop it! We are here to watch my hunk of a boyfriend train, and to just catch up." Kat said, directing her criticism at Ellie.

"Both of you stop fighting, when it's plain and simple, the reason why we are here is for me to find a boyfriend, and so that I can forget about stupid, idiotic Potter. You know he is such an evil, selfish person. I hate him, I hate him so much!" Lily screamed angrily.

Ellie and Kat both looked at each other with great pity for Lily.

Kat put her arms around Lily and said, "It's ok to be angry. But think about it, you're getting so upset over being pranked. You're Lily Evans, for Christ's sake."

Lily nodded; she had tears beginning to form in her eyes. She ran. She was running so fast that it looked as if she was trying to out run a twister.

"Do you think we should go after her?" Ellie said to Kat.

Kat shook her head, and changed the subject.

"So how are you and Remus going?"

"I don't know anymore, before I thought everything was fine, but not anymore, he's gone all blank. I can't seem to read him anymore." Ellie confessed.

"Well, now you know how he feels, imagine being him. Never knowing what you're going to look like. It would be really hard." Kat joked, Ellie laughed, and her hair changed so it was very long and dark black, her eyes were a bubblegum pink.

The two started laughing, but from a distance Sam was approaching.

"I'm glad someone's having a good time." He said. He was all hot and sweaty from training, and he had a huge cut along his face.

"Honey, oh my gosh, what happened?" Kat said with horror in her voice.

With the return of Sam, Ellie decided that she should head off; Emma had asked her to help her revise for Monday's charms test.

"A bludger hit me, but it's nothing, I'll go and see Madam Pomfrey and get it cleaned up." Sam said, he is so gorgeous, Kat thought, even with the cut on his face.

"Oh, don't worry about going and seeing her, bend down." She picked up her wand and flicked it a couple of times, and the cut was healed, and completely erased from his face.

"Thanks, what did I ever do without you?" And with that Sam swept her off her feet and embraced her into a passionate, but beautiful kiss.

As Ellie was walking back to the common room she heard a group of people coming her way, she didn't feel like having a run in with anybody so she ran into a nearby broom closet.

The voices were approaching her.

"When do you think we should do it?" Said a voice, Ellie immediately recognized it as the voice of Jesse Lestrange.

"Maybe the next Hogsmeade trip, that way most people will be out of the way." Another voice said, but Ellie again recognized it, it sounded like Claudia, another Slytherin, this was beginning to get suspicious.

The voices faded, and Ellie left the cupboard feeling very confused, suddenly she felt a cold thin hand on her shoulder, she reached for her wand, but then heard the person say. "What, hey Elles, it's me, Lily."

"Oh, sorry, I just had a little run in with the slithery twins, sorry." Ellie said.

"Oh ok, well tell me about it."

Ellie told Lily everything, and by the time she had finished they were back in their dormitory, and getting ready for bed.

"Oh yeah, Lily, why did you run off?" Ellie said.

"Because I had been stupid about the whole situation and because I wanted to apologize to James. But I never found him."

"You, apologize? Ha, you make me laugh." Ellie said wiping a tear away from her eye.

"Speaking of laughter, where in this world is Kat?" Lily asked; it was unusual for her to miss out on a joke.

"Well, the last time I saw her she was making out with tall, dark and handsome." Ellie said smugly.

"James!" Lily shouted.

"NO!" Ellie rebutted.

"Sirius?"

"NO!"

"Oh, right, Sam."

"Yeah, goodnight Lily."

"Goodnight Ellie."

"Goodnight to you too."

The next morning the Marauder's dormitory woke with a start.

"No." Yelled Sirius.

"What?" Mumbled James and Remus in unison.

"This is from McGonagall. It says that I have an all day detention and I have to report to her office immediately. This blows, I really wanted to spend the day at Hogsmeade with Emma." An angry Sirius complained as he began to get ready.

"Oh tough break." Remus said, although secretly he was glad that it wasn't him instead, he really needed to spend some quality time with Ellie.

"Oh bugger, well I'll be sure to get you something nice. And I'll tell you all of the gossip about Kat and her new boyfriend Sam, he's in Ravenclaw." James added, he sounded like a girl with his high pitched screaming, though, this only made Remus laugh even louder.

"What, Sam from Ravenclaw quidditch, oh you have got to be kidding me, im going to miss this. Well this day is just horrible, I hate McGonagall." Sirius left the room, although not before whispering profanities under his breathe.

In the girls dormitory there was a great commotion too, but this was not quite the same as the boys.

"Oh, I love Sirius Black, he is so sweet." Emma giggles, whilst holding an unwrapped letter.

"What did he do this time?" Whined Lily, who had been awakened by Emma's high pitched scream.

"He has invited me on a picnic."

"Oh that's sweet, go back to bed!" Lily yelled.

"Ok, but have you seen Kat yet, she seems to have disappeared?" Emma questioned.

"Oh yeah, that seems a bit strange, when was the last time you saw her." Emma asked.

"Actually Ellie was the last one to see her, but she's in no state to tell us." Lily pointed over to the lump that was occupying Ellie's bed.

"Oh, I see. You know what Lily, I think we should really go out and look for her, you never know, and considering what I overheard last night." Emma said starting to sound a tad bit concerned.

"Your right."

With that the two girls got up and left to go and find Kat, but just as they reached for the door they saw Kat.

Her hair was messed up, and she was wearing the same robes that she had on yesterday.

"Well, well. What do we have here?" Lily mocked.

"Shut up. I couldn't get into the common room yesterday, so Sam offered to let me stay in his dorm. So I did." Kat said whilst changing into her casual Hogsmeade clothes.

"Oh, I see. That makes sense. Oh Kat, guess what. Sirius invited me on a picnic. Isn't that sweet." Emma announced dreamingly.

"Yeah, lovely. So Lily are you going to Hogsmeade?" Kat asked.

"Yeah, I might, I need to get some things." Lily trailed off.

"Oh ok, aren't you going with James?" Emma asked, she had thought that Lily would make up with him.

"No, I thought it over last night, and I decided that I wasn't quite ready yet to forgive him."

"Ok." Emma and Kat said in unison.

The girls left to go to breakfast, but on the way Lily stopped, and turned around, she saw James standing there, he had tapped her on the shoulder.

"Lily." James said in a pleading voice.

"I have nothing to say to you." Lily said, and just started walking again.

James was left, standing there, with Remus's hand on his shoulder. He looked rejected.

As Lily waked away with Kat and Emma, tears began to form in her eyes. This was going to be harder than she had thought.